BALTIMORE – Before a boisterous crowd of nearly 1,400, UMBC battled Texas A&M- Corpus Christi, but came up short, falling, 79-61, in the College Insider Tournament semi-finals.

The Retrievers’ landmark season comes to an end with a mark of 21-13, while TAMCC (24-11) will host the title game on Friday.

Senior Will Darley (Timonium, Md./Dulaney) scored 15 points and finished his career with 552, the fifth-most in a single season in school history. He added a trio of treys and recorded 90 on the campaign, one shy of a Brian Neller’s single season record set in 2012-13.

UMBC led by as many as 10 points deep into the first half, but the Islanders would score 30 of the game’s next 40 points over a 12-minute span bridging both halves to take control.

Trailing 49-39 with 12:56 remaining, UMBC made one final push, as a Darley trey and back-to-back field goals by Lamar cut the TAMCC lead to 52-48 with 7:29 remaining. But the Islanders would respond with a 11-0 run, capped when Kareem South banked in a trey from 35 feet away.

UMBC only converted eight (of 23) second half field goals, while the Islanders hit 19-of-26 (73.1 percent). Just a 33.3 percent and low volume 3-point shooting team entering the game, the visitors converted 8-of-11 in the second half.

UMBC led for nearly 16 minutes of the first half. Trailing 15-14 at the 11:00 mark, the Retrievers ran off a 10-0 surge, as Elliott scored half the Retriever points in that span. UMBC took a pair of 10-point leads, the latest coming at 29-19 at the 3:52 mark, but the Islanders sliced the deficit in half and trailed, 34-29, at the break.